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Hey, I'm an Amy Rose fangirl and darn proud. neutral I like her the way she is. That makes her an amusing and cool character to me. heart

I'm a SegaSonic purist, so I despise characters outside that....especially the ones from the Archie comics. *coughmostespeciallySallycough* This Mina character, however, sounds kinda nice, and I kinda like Fleetway's characters.

How come?

*curious*

I'll reply to that longer post later, Houdinia. As I've explained in that new announcement at the top of the forum, things've been a little busy for me today.

Sorry. It's the English Major in me - over-analysis can be second nature sometimes. smile



To be honest, I liked that, too. In a world where just about every character we'd seen had been just turning into good little freedom fighters and getting stuck into the good fight, it was a change to see someone who had ability but just didn't psychologically want that life.

We actually got to see Mina figuring out that she was in the FFs for the wrong reasons, and also that there're more ways to serve the cause than on the front line - hence her singing for the troops as a morale booster these days, after we saw Sonic realising that she'd be more suited to that.



Don't apologise! We all do about one thing or another. smile



What's wrong with Ash? If anything, I find that it's probably Mina's character weakness that she flits between people who she wants to latch onto to a pretty reckless extent. She'd initially have gotten herself robotocised going off to save her family if Sonic hadn't stopped her, she then latched onto Sonic, and when Sonic was gone, she latched onto the next person to loom largely and closely in her life: her manager, Ash.

She seemed to've figured that out and worked through it in 144's Love and Loss, though. And I don't see how it's Ash's fault.



I actually invited MurasakiDoku to join the guild, but I haven't seen her yet. I think that maybe she declined.



I don't like Sally all that much, either. True, it could've been worse, and the "I am a princess, but out here in the Great Forest, titles're meaningless!"/"Out here, the only royalty is Mother Nature" dialogue could've extended beyond the SatAM series bible and the pilot.

But a lot of my opinion on the early Sally can be found here. My original comment was twice as long, but clipped to fit their 1,000 word limit - ask if you want to see the full version.

To be honest, I like the character development we've seen Sally go through recently. Since the age of five, she's been a figurehead and raised as a leader in the middle of a guerilla war.

Now, at a time in their lives when most teens're having identity crises anyway, all of that's just suddenly been over, she's got back her family and all of her formal responsibilities, and she's just being blithely expected to readjust. Is it any wonder that she let her parents push her around initially, when she was probably just so grateful to have them both back?

Plus, it was an entirely plausible response from someone suffering from depression - which has actually been mentioned in the comic.

And I like that. For ten years, we've been watching a little girl fight a freakin' war and all of this death, peril and destruction bounce off her. It's nice to see a realistic reaction in that mentally, she's finally cracked.

And ever since, we've been seeing her openly reassess who she is. She's had to put "FF Sally" back in her box, dust off "Princess Sally", and try to figure out who even "just Sally" is along the way. If anyone's seen Jon Gray's original final page for Love and Loss (which was destroyed by Hurricane Frances), that'd be even clearer than it already is.

Sally's actually being seen having realistic reactions to situations, and being allowed to grow. As far as Bollers was concerned, anyway. And whilst it doesn't redeem a lot of her flaws, I can respect it for giving her a set of more understandable ones.

It's not my sort of show, but yes, I know it. And the fact that Sally was at least stopped from going that far beyond the pilot was a relief to me, too.



Again, the complete babying of Tails was drawn back from - but he did so little that it made very little difference in the end.

It was an okay cartoon - especially for its time - but it wasn't Sonic as far as I was concerned.

I'll see if I can find the original comment on my laptop, and PM it to you.



I can't say I blame you. As you can probably tell from that comment, she's rubbed me up the wrong way for a long time, too.



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Like I said - he's a fast thinker and not overly given to introspection. Whilst they were busy analysing things, he just looked up and pointed at the freakin' obvious.

I have to admit to being an Amy convertee (invented word there, sorry!). I absolutely loathed her from her appearance in Sonic CD onward, she was a pain in the neck to race with in Sonic R, she had an awful theme tune in Sonic Adventure and she was clearly colourblind in Sonic Adventure 2 (hello, black hedgehog with red tipped spines does *not* look like the object of her desire!).

And yet, watching Sonic X I found she was a heck of a lot less annoying as an actual personality. Yeah, she still had this whole stalker thing going on, but she seemed a little more independent and a little less hostage bait. She also had that Pika hammer of hers which she could materialise out of nowhere (really love her attack on Eggman when they got back home!) and you did *not* want to get her angry! She's even better in season 2.

She was pretty useful in Team Rose in Sonic Heroes and, heaven help me, I actually like her theme in that game.

*hides under a stone at this admission of liking something so sentimental*

So, although she'll never usurp Tails or indeed Sonic, Knuckles and Shadow, she's improved and she's now pretty cool to me.

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I like Amy!

I'm with Nuala on this one. Fleetway Amy is the only Amy in my eyes.

I will always see Amy as usless in this series. thats all I have to say bout that.

But as for mina, yes she was desperatly needed to spice up the series but in my opinion she is only there to strengthe the bond between Sonic and Sally. I love her strong charecter and think she's great but its a good thing she move on to ash, because if she had screwed up Sonic and Sally's relationship more than it already was I would have to go and kill her.